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Leah Orr
Summary: This essay presents a microhistory of retail bookselling in Boston just after the Revolutionary War through an analysis of Benjamin Guild's daybook. It argues that American customers mainly bought British books and that prices varied, with implications for book history, literature, and cultural studies.
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Kaplan Harris
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Laura Thiemann Scales
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Leigh H. Edwards
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Elizabeth J. Cali
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John Funchion
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Keri Holt
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Sarah Chihaya
Summary: This review examines Columbia University Press's ongoing Rereadings series, which is a collection of ambitious short books that aim to reevaluate individual novels and the nature of academic criticism. By analyzing three of the current entries in the series, the review reveals the close connection between these books and the institutional conditions surrounding their writing and reception.
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
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Bill Brown
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
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Juliana Spahr
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Susan Fraiman
Summary: Who owns The Real in realism, and what difference does gender make? This article challenges monolithic notions of realism and explores the divergent signifiers of the real. By examining the works of Jack London and survival reality TV shows, the author argues that there is an attempt to impose a masculine version of reality. However, the author also highlights the importance of a realism that focuses on daily, non-dire, and domestic aspects, which challenges traditional notions of masculinity.
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
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William Gleason
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Elizabeth Lunbeck
Summary: This passage explores the issue of feeling safe in a world marked by conflict and chaos, as well as the emotional strategies to cope with unbearable realities. The authors discuss the split between caring and indifferent parts of the psyche and advocate for mobilizing the caring side to combat indifference and resignation. The passage also delves into the changing emotional regimes of the 20th century, posing questions about resignation as a sensible psychic strategy.
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
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Robert Chodat
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Guadalupe Escobar
Summary: This article examines the representation of the DREAMer in contemporary Latinx memoirs and highlights the relationship between the right to education and narratability. It analyzes the memoirs of Alberto Ledesma, Reyna Grande, and Dan-el Padilla Peralta as critical examples of DREAMer narratives, focusing on suppressed and subversive self-expression. These texts reveal how educational systems perpetuate assimilation and hierarchical exclusion of racial minorities, while also serving as platforms for amplifying marginalized voices. The proliferation of critical DREAMer memoirs reflects the evolving landscape of Latinx literature after 9/11 and the intersection of human rights and literature.
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Ana Schwartz
Summary: This essay introduces the concept of imperative reading as a solution to the tension between implicitly suspicious historicist methods and postcritical reading practices that prioritize readerly pleasure. Imperative reading reveals the historically influenced obligations that shape the expectation of reading as a pleasurable experience. Drawing from the writing and reading practices of Samson Occom, a Mohegan minister and theologian, the essay explores how reading and writing can be both sources of pleasure and resistance to the dominant liberalism of the time. The essay also examines the perspective of Esther Poquiantup Fowler, Occom's sister-in-law, on the expectation of reading as an imperative and her strategies for navigating this burden.
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Paige McGinley
Summary: This article discusses the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, particularly in Mississippi. Individuals such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern Theater immersed themselves in existential questions of freedom and responsibility, offering guidance towards ethical action in seemingly hopeless circumstances.
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Ted Hamilton
Summary: This article examines the influence of law on the narration of environmental conflict in William T. Vollmann's Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. By analyzing the novels, the article highlights the significance of the legal imagination in defining human-land relations in the United States, and demonstrates how the novels critique and seek to change environmental politics through discourse.
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Gia Coturri Sorenson
NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS
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Alexander Jordan
Summary: This paragraph discusses the relationship between the Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle and the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, focusing on Emerson's involvement in publishing Carlyle's works in America. However, a recently discovered letter reveals that Emerson did not work alone, but received crucial assistance in editing Carlyle's works from Charles Stearns Wheeler, a young Harvard graduate.
NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY-A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE AND LETTERS
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